Bourbon Princess
Selected Discography
Considering that Dana Colley, the sax player from Morphine, plays some tracks on Monique's Bourbon Princess recordings, and that she has recorded at High-N-Dry quite a few times, which was Mark Sandman's home, I would say yes, there is definitely a connection. However her first Bourbon Princess album, Stopline, really doesn't sound like Morphine.
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I think that opinion really has to do more with the fact that an electric fretless isn't very common, especially when it's the primary instrument, the pioneering sound of a song. What she did with Bourbon Princess was continue the sound of "Low Rock", a genre that Mark Sandman was the pioneer of.
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Monique Ortiz has also put out a solo album, Reclining Female. Just her and her fretless, overlapping cavernous harmonies in her apartment. It doesn't sound like Morphine. It's got a dark & distant, soft & low, velvety rich feminine edge. She's original, she couldn't sound any other way. As a testimonial, go see her live. And be on the lookout, she's coming out with another album soon, and it's not Bourbon Princess. 2 sexy fuzzed out basses and drums is what I've been hearing...
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Gotta say it, to see her live would make up for missing Morphine/San d m a n live!
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So Victor/Victo r i a . Girl pretending to be a guy pretending to be a girl. Still rocks tho ;}
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Good s**t, whether it sounds like Sandman or not. This is a copy cat world and thankfully for Monique, she is a pioneer in a female sandman.
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A female Mark Sandman- the most complete Morphine hack I've ever heard- please tell me they have a connection to that band other than the fact that they sound pretty much exactly like them. At least that would justify it somewhat..
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Monique Ortiz's voice and a baritone saxophone. Whew. Next time I'm asked what three things I would take with me to a deserted island, I now know what two of them will be.
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